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Polish Relief Fund :— £ s. d. £ s. d, Lawrence Patriotic Fund ... ... ... ... 4 7 0 Southland War Funds Council ... ... ... 2 0 0 Lawrence Patriotic Fund ... .. ... ... 4 4 0 It) IJ 0 New Zealand Expeditionary Forces Tobacco Fund: — Southland War Funds Association ... ... ... ... 0 16 0 Chronicle's New Zealand Expeditionary Forces Fund: — J. Baird, Otatara ... ... ... ... ... 0 10 0 Munitions Fund : — Wellington Publishing Company's list ... ... ... 0 10 0 Russian Prisoners' Relief Fund: — Southland War Funds Association ... ... ... ... 3 0 0 Belgian Children Relief Fund :— Hawke's Bay War Relief Association ... ... 2 5 0 Kelburn school-children ... ... ... ... 20 0 0 22 5 0 £12,454 18 I In addition the following amounts have been remitted to the Paymasters, New Zealand Forces: — New Zealand Comforts Fund :— EgyptStratford Red Cross Guild ... ... ... 5 0 0 Hunterville Countess of Liverpool Fund and Red Cross Guild ... ... ... ... 35 0 0 P. Holt ... ... ... ... ... 15 0 0 Reefton Local Defence Fund ... ... .... 10 0 0 65 0 0 England — Stratford Red Cross Guild ... ... ... 5 0 0 Maungattiroto Patriotic Society ... ... 100 0 0 _ 105 0 0 Regimental Funds: — England— Marlborough Patriotic Fund ... ... ... ... 150 0 0 * Egypt— Marlborough Patriotic Fund ... ... ... ... 50 0 0 £12,824 18 I Poor in Belgium Relief: — Monthly contribution under Government scheme (less £301 os. 4d., as explained in first paragraph of this memorandum) ... ... ... ... 14.698 19 8 £27,523 17 9 Arthur M. Myers, Acting Minister of Finance.

No. 9. New Zealand, No. 73. Sir,— Government House, Wellington, 24th Fehruary, 1917. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your predecessor's despatch, No. 971, of the Bth Decemher, enclosing copies of a new edition of the regulations issued by the Board of Trade relating to the examination of engineers in the mercantile marine. 2. Ministers advise me that any alterations in the New Zealand regulations which may be necessary in order to coincide with the new edition issued by the Board of Trade will lie made at an early date. I have, &c, LIVERPOOL, The Right Hon. Walter EL Long, M.P., Governor. Secretary of State for the Colonies.